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Third group of artists revealed for Thailand Biennale, Phuket 2025
Life, Published on 26/08/2025
» The Ministry of Culture of Thailand recently unveiled the third group of 15 participating artists and collectives for the upcoming Thailand Biennale, Phuket 2025, scheduled to take place from November to April next year.
Siam Society marks 120 years with Rama V musical
Life, Published on 18/11/2024
» To celebrate the 120th anniversary of its founding in the final years of the reign of King Rama V of the Chakri Dynasty, Siam Society presents a special musical performance titled 1907: Rama V European Operatic Journey at its auditorium. There are four rounds at 7pm on Nov 26, 28 and 30 and a matinee show at 4pm on Dec 1.
A show of dissent
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 17/08/2018
» An office, an artist's studio, a Burmese tea house, the "Yawnghwe Office In Exile" at Cartel Artspace encompasses all these spaces and more -- for an office does not only need to contain a desk and a computer, but it is primarily a location for the production of thoughts and ideas.
When in doubt, have fun
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 26/07/2018
» Since opening Artist + Run in Bangkok, Angkrit Ajchariyasophon's curatorial work has somewhat supplanted his artistic practice. But the day-to-day management of his busy gallery on Narathiwas 22 and off-site exhibitions hasn't kept him from producing new works, which have been exhibited in Thailand and abroad.
Art show out of the shadows
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 24/07/2018
» Nestled on the ground floor of a condominium complex in Pathum Thani, Condo Art Space is among newly opened venues for the production and exhibition of contemporary art in the greater Bangkok area. Just in time for the Bangkok Biennial, of which it is a pavilion, the apartment-turned-studio-turned-gallery was founded by four fine arts students at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi between the ages of 21 and 26.
Serving a higher purpose
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 04/06/2018
» The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) made headlines last month owing to more than one reason. Even before (appointed) Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang articulated his irking comments -- by which he made it known to the world that he would like to see the art centre turned into a co-working space packed with chairs -- critics and defenders of the BACC's management were already arguing on social media.
Evocation of borrowed memories
Life, Story: Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 19/04/2018
» Taiki Sakpisit's haunting evocation of memory and time fills the top floor of Subhashok The Arts Centre this month. "Until The Morning Comes" comprises the Thai artist's video works made in collaboration with Japanese sound designer Yasuhiro Morinaga, and plunges viewers into the heart of rituals and defined spaces seemingly removed from normal existence.
Freeing up the mind
Life, Story: Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 17/04/2018
» It has been a month since the 21st Sydney Biennale opened and the works of two Thai artists showcased in Australia's largest contemporary art event are receiving praise from international visitors.
From ideology to action
Life, Story: Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 03/04/2018
» 'Sex and bombs, all you need is sex and bombs to make the world go round," says veteran Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket, commenting on a 2011 painting from his "Sex Bomb: 24 Hours" series -- a portrait of himself drawn atop a scantily clad woman's body in a seductive pose, a bombshell by his side. Although the series is a denunciation of the modern pornography -- money, power and lies -- that we are fed on a daily basis, there's more to Vasan's work than just lust and violence.
The invisible borders
Life, Story: & ARIANE SUTTHAVONG-KUPFERMAN, Published on 26/03/2018
» In Chiang Mai, a mammoth exhibition has come to town. "Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus Of Southeast Asia", currently on display at the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, brings to viewers the different facets and implications of migratory movements in and out of the region since the Vietnam War, all the way to the current crisis concerning the Rohingya.